This e-book provides readers a short introductory MATLAB course oriented towards various collaborative areas of biotechnology and bioscience. The text concentrates on MATLAB fundamentals and gives examples of its application for various problems in computational biologymolecular biologybiokineticsbiomedicinebioinformaticsand biotechnology. MATLAB is presented with examples and applications to various school-level and advanced life science / bioengineering problems - from growing populations of microorganisms and population dynamicsreaction kinetics and reagent concentrations predator-prey modelsto data fitting and time series analysis. The book is divided into 6 chapters containing material carefully selected and tailored to teaching several groups of biotechnology students. The topics are presented in a mannerthat allows readersto proceed sequentially on the strength of the preceding material. Primary MATLAB for Life Sciences: A Guide for Beginners is essentially a concise and comprehensive text that provides an easy grasp and to-the-point access to the MATLAB tool to the community of life sciences and bioengneering undergraduates and specialists.